Re: garbage string as cpu identifier

On 9 Mar 2004, at 18:03, Doom Neine wrote:

> hello all,
> doug white pointed out that my cpu string being garbaged was  
> interesting, i noticed it but i didn't think it was a big deal.

I personally find this very interesting indeed.

> Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
>
> CPU:  
> \M-5\M^_at_f\M-A\M-a\^P\M-~\M-C\M-h\M-7\M^?fY\M-1\^Z\M^J\M-C\M-~\M-H\M- 
> h\M-<I\M-h)Hr\M-)\M^_at_\M-e\M-x\M^_at_\M-E\^Hs\M-!\M-C\M-h% (1833.14-MHz  
> 686-class CPU)
>
> Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x6a0 Stepping = 0
>
> Features=0x383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE 
> ,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
>
> AMD Features=0xc0400000<AMIE,DSP,3DNow!>

After digging around, I locate the origin as 'cpuid()' functions.
Here, please answer a few questions:

1) What's your CPU option in kernel configuration file: I686_CPU
or I386_CPU? I guess yours is I686_CPU.

2) What's the specific model of your CPU? AMD Duron or Athlon?
What's the speed?

With your these answers, I could write a small patch. If you're
willing to try that, let's see how it goes.

Cheers,
Bin